More than $30,000 in grants from the Maine Community Foundation (MaineCF) will support hospice services in southern Maine. MaineCF’s Hospice Fund committee awarded five grants totaling $29,5000. Donors with advised funds awarded three additional grants that totaled $7,000. The 2022 grantees include: • Center for Grieving Children, Portland, to provide peer-support groups for grieving children […]
Dina Mendros
Dina is Executive Editor for the Biddeford-Saco-OOB Courier, the Kennebunk Post, the Scarborough Leader and the South Portland-Cape Elizabeth Sentry. She is a born and bred Mainer living in Saco.
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September training event to address climate change, coastal erosion
SACO — Save our Shorelines: Saco Bay (SOS Saco Bay) announces its first annual conference on Coastal Erosion at Ferry Beach Retreat & Conference Center in Saco on Tuesday, Sept. 27. The conference will focus on the dual threats of climate change and coastal erosion. Coastal Erosion is a naturally occurring process, but at Camp […]
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Scarborough Land Trust forms task force to tackle invasive plants
SCARBOROUGH —For decades, plant species from overseas have been taking root in North America and the Scarborough Land Trust is doing something to fight invasive plants locally. Establishment of these nonnative or exotic plants can be traced back centuries in New England due to the import and export industry. Many of these plants have native […]
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Music will continue to fill the parks this summer in Biddeford
BIDDEFORD — With three weeks of Music in the Park left this summer and the River Jam Festival just around the corner, Heart of Biddeford wants the community to know that some of the best entertainment is yet to come. The remaining Music in the Park events are Wednesday nights, July 27, Aug. 3 and […]
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Obituary: Richard A. Roberts Jr.
BIDDEFORD — Richard A. Roberts Jr., “Rick”, 64, of Biddeford, passed away in the early morning hours on June 22, 2022, at Maine Medical Center with his wife and children by his side. Rick suffered complications from a spinal cord injury taking place nearly seven weeks earlier. He is survived by: his wife of 35 […]
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Resident input asked for in GMO exemption review process for The Downs
The Town Council is in its first exemption review process since adopting an updated Growth Management Ordinance (GMO) in 2021. The GMO is a very specific tool to manage the pace of development within our community and has been used in Scarborough for over 20 years. It regulates how much of the allowable growth in […]
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Municipal boards and committees help shape Scarborough’s growth and more
Monthly Town Council meetings and workshops are a reliable way to get caught up with the current pulse for what’s happening in Scarborough. To take it one step further, follow along with the more than 10 active boards and committees that meet on a regular basis. While many Town-wide topics of interest are reviewed at […]
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Celebrate the arts with Scarborough Public Library
The Scarborough Public Library is hosting an event for the entire family at the end of July, a celebration of summer and the Arts at our library. Save the morning of Saturday, July 30 from 9 a.m. to noon and join us for ArtS on the Lawn. Scarborough resident Dianne Pettipaw and her daughter Lisa […]
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Visit nonprofit booth at Scarborough Farmers’ Market
The Scarborough Farmers’ Market has added a new exhibitor this summer — nonprofit groups. Look for the ScarboroughHelps.org tent where nonprofit organizations in town are exhibiting and connecting with market shoppers. When the market was founded 15 summers ago, Jim Damicis, Marla Zando, and Julie Bassett collaborated to launch it. Ever since, the vendors and […]
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SACO UMA drones visit Saco skies
SACO – The University of Maine at Augusta’s Aviation Studies program has been hosting drone flying demonstrations and educational sessions about them at several of its facilities across the state. Recently, it held an event on July 14 at its Saco Center located on 4 Scammon St. The UMA Aviation Studies program’s purpose in holding […]